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77 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine University in 1968. Remaining with New York University, he received a PhD in theatre history and theory in 1974. At the inception of his career in 1969, Dr. Kolb served Nazareth College as first an instructor, then assistant professor, associate professor and full professor of theatre arts until his departure in 1984. During his tenure there, he created a faculty guide and sat on faculty committees. After serving the Hochstein School for one year, he joined the faculty of Hofstra University, where he was the director of liberal arts studies and continuing education from 1985 to 1988, and was chair of the Department of Drama and Dance, where he doubled the program size. Since 1988, he has served as a full professor of drama at Hofstra. A speaker in the humanities, consultant for Arts Connection in New York and theater auditor for the New York State Council on the Arts, Dr. Kolb has also been a lecturer in public libraries and contributes to several prominent publications. The director of such esteemed theater works as “Merry Wives of Windsor,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “Macbeth” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” among others, he also co-edited “Art, Glitter and Glitz: Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America” in 2004. In light of his outstanding undertakings, Dr. Kolb was named Distinguished Colleague of the Year by Nazareth College in 1984, having previously been named a Teacher of Excellence in Drama by the New York State English Council in 1983 and earned the Zelda Lyons Award from St. John Fisher College in 1966. He was also selected for inclusion in the second edition of Who’s Who in Entertainment in 1992. Dr. Kolb maintains affiliation with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the American Theatre and Drama Society, the American Society for Theatre Research and the American Theatre Association. I nitially inspired to pursue a career in chemistry, Dr. James J. Kolb soon found his love for interacting with others, and thus, shifted his areas of focus to philosophy, music, art and drama. Attending St. John Fisher College, he graduated summa cum laude with a BPhil in 1966, followed by an MA in theatre history and theory from New York JAMES J. KOLB, PHD DRAMA EDUCATOR Hofstra University Levittown, NY EDUCATION